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From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add `intl` to EMPTY_LIB_NAMES.
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 10:32:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160312153206.GC9349@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160312120954.GA14769@nyan>

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 01:09:54PM +0100, Felix Janda wrote:
> Masanori Ogino wrote:
> > 2016-03-11 16:13 GMT+09:00 Masanori Ogino <masanori.ogino@gmail.com>:
> > > From the last link:
> > >> According to the post linked from the above, the check seems to be there
> > >> to exclude incompatible implementations of gettext(), like Solaris 7 and
> > >> NetBSD:
> > >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2006-03/msg00011.html
> > >>
> > >> If musl's gettext implementation is compatible with GNU gettext, I guess
> > >> we could adjust the check to accept it.  However, I have no idea which
> > >> symbols or macros can be used for the check.  It would be helpful if
> > >> musl people could chime in and give us a hint.
> > 
> > Well, is `__USE_GNU_GETTEXT` suitable for that?
> 
> That depends on whether the incompatible implementations do not also
> define this macro. The NetBSD libintl.h header does not seem to do so.
> However I'm not sure about Solaris. According to the man page its
> libintl.h does define GNU_GETTEXT_SUPPORTED_REVISION but it's not clear
> whether or not __USE_GNU_GETTEXT is also defined.
> 
> It can't hurt to ask on the gettext list.

__USE_* is glibc-features.h-internal machinery to communicate between
the glibc headers (and possibly, by abuse, other GNU projects'
headers) and should never be used publicly.

Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-12 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-08  5:50 OGINO Masanori
2016-03-11  4:58 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-11  7:13   ` Masanori Ogino
2016-03-11  7:21     ` Masanori Ogino
2016-03-12 12:09       ` Felix Janda
2016-03-12 15:32         ` Rich Felker [this message]
2016-03-12 22:25         ` Masanori Ogino
2016-03-12 15:30     ` Rich Felker
2016-03-12 22:28       ` Masanori Ogino

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